A few questions about fasting!

I am curious, what are the health benefits for fasting? What are the negatives from it?
I have a friend telling me that fasting for two days is fine and healthy with no negative effects. Is this true? I really don't know much about this subject but I am curious. Figured I would ask the MMO community!

Also is intermittent fasting as good as people claim? Even going as far saying its healthier lifestyle?

It should, because it's hogwash. After two days of not eating most people will be eager to gorge themselves with food in one go. Not only does this negate the purpose of the fasting itself but it can be dangerous because you might feel the need to eat more than what your body can take. Ok maybe not after only just two days but you get the picture.

It should, because it's hogwash. After two days of not eating most people will be eager to gorge themselves with food in one go. Not only does this negate the purpose of the fasting itself but it can be dangerous because you might feel the need to eat more than what your body can take. Ok maybe not after only just two days but you get the picture.

Fasting for two days =/= not eating for two days.

Reading this forum makes me glad that Watcher has his head screwed on correctly.

Not sure where you are getting this from.....is this your own personal experience? Perhaps fasting isn't for you. I do intermittent fast 18 hours fast 6 hours eating every day. I have never felt better and NEVER gorge. Sure I am hungry, but I eat MORE than I did before, I just don't eat junk foods.

Fasting will help in a host of both physical and psychologically. @Original poster - You will do yourself no harm trying it. At least then you will have first hand experience and an informed opinion.

2 days no eating isn't fasting. That's bullshit....
Fasting takes around 3 - 4 weeks, during which you only drink mineral water. It takes over a week to flush the body out of all negative chemicals stored in the body.
You should consult with your doctor beforehand tho. Fasting is not for everyone equally healthy.
One more thing to be added. make sure you have mintos or the like at hand. After 3 - 4 days fasting you will develop an incredibly bad breath. Your stomach has basically nothing to do, and while he's shrinking in size, releases gases to the top instead of the rear exist when food digestion happens.
On the flipside.. after some 3 - 4 days the hunger feeling will go away. You will not feel like you are starving now.

Not sure where you are getting this from.....is this your own personal experience? Perhaps fasting isn't for you. I do intermittent fast 18 hours fast 6 hours eating every day. I have never felt better and NEVER gorge. Sure I am hungry, but I eat MORE than I did before, I just don't eat junk foods.

Fasting will help in a host of both physical and psychologically. @Original poster - You will do yourself no harm trying it. At least then you will have first hand experience and an informed opinion.

Sure, eat tomatoes and drink some mineral waters for a couple of days and see how you feel.
I did that and do that 2-3 days in line out of every month and it's great.

2 days of fasting is fine. Should probably eat something to keep your stomach working atleast a few hours every day.
But for the love of god, ask your doctor or even better your nutritionist before you start, and don't take anything on this message board or most of the internet for fact when it comes to your health and well beign.

Also is intermittent fasting as good as people claim? Even going as far saying its healthier lifestyle?

Sounds like this diet popularized by BBC's Horizon program a few months back. If that's the case, it's gone somewhat viral and people are making all sorts of health claims about it but proper evidence is lacking. Fad diets are dumb.

So sick of people advocating diets and lifestyles that are based on cutting down on the amount of food one eats... just eat when you're hungry, eat balanced meals, no junk food, no sweets, drink water, sleep like a baby, work hard and you'll live 'til you're 100 :P

I did a 100 hours water fast once just as an experiment. I didn't lose much muscle and didn't really get any benefit. The only negative thing was that I wasted 4 days watching TV series (didn't want to do any effort) and noticing how freaking often they eat in those.